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Object type: Decorated fragment
Measurements: L. 23.5 cm (9.25 in); W. 9 cm (3.5 in); D. Built in
Stone type: Sandstone, friable, yellow-brown, fine to coarse grained, quartzose. Carboniferous, Namurian, Millstone Grit Group
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 60
Corpus volume reference: Vol 12 p. 129
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The wider end of this small fragment appears to be the edge of the monument, marked by a plain flat border. Decoration within the field comprises a block of parallel strands set at 45 degrees to the border, separated by incised channels. Variations in the stone surface might suggest some elaboration of this simple pattern, but seem more likely to be casual damage and/or keying for plaster since removed.
See Normanton 1. Like no. 1, this item in itself offers too limited a basis for categorization. Just possibly it was part of the same monument as that stone, since their petrology is very similar and their trajectory of reuse the same; but their patterning and borders are so different that they would probably have to be from distinct faces.
